Andrea Corsini

Saint Andrea Corsini
Guido Reni : Andrea Corsini in prayer, 1630–1635, in the Galeria degli Uffizi in Florence
Born	November 30, 1301/1302 ( Florence )
Deceased	January 6, 1374 ( Fiesole )
canonization	April 22, 1629 by Pope Urban VIII.
Holiday	January 6th / 9th January / 4. February
Place of worship	Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence
Patron saint	called against the riots and unrest
Attributes	holding a cross, with a wolf and lamb at his feet and hovering over a battlefield on a cloud or a white tent , bishop's cloak

Andrea Corsini (also Andreas Corsini ) (born November 30, 1301 in Florence , † January 6, 1374 in Fiesole ) was bishop of the diocese of Fiesole . He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church .

Life

Andrea Corsini came from the aristocratic Corsini family from Florence and was born as one of the twelve children of Niccolò Corsini and Gemma degli Stracciabende. At the age of fifteen he joined the Order of the Carmelites in Florence. In 1324 he was ordained a priest and was sent to Paris to study at the Sorbonne , after which he studied in Avignon . After he returned to Florence in 1347, a plague epidemic broke out there . In view of his fearless pastoral care among the sick - regardless of the risk of infection - the people began to regard him as a prophet and miracle worker. In 1348 he was appointed Provincial for Tuscany during the general chapter of his order in Metz . He held this office for two years (1348-1349).

Pope Clement VI appointed him on October 13, 1349 as the successor of Fuligno Carboni, who died of the plague, Bishop of Fiesole. His ascetic rigor and absolute devotion to his service was not well-endured by everyone. He was energetic, compassionate, and also a good administrator and judge. Several times he succeeded in reconciling the parties fighting for power in various Italian cities. He was then called over and over again as a peacemaker , including a. 1370 in Bologna . For 24 years he tirelessly visited the parishes of his diocese, the hospitals and the hospices to help the poor. He renewed and built churches, fought fraud and violations of celibacy . In 1372 he founded the Priestly Society of the Holy Trinity, also known as the Rosary Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity.

Andrea Corsini died at the age of 72 on the day of the apparition of the Lord (Epiphany). He was buried in Florence in the Corsini family chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine .

Adoration

After his death, the faithful began to venerate Andrea Corsini as a saint for the many miracles attributed to him ; the church hierarchy had to allow this. Pope Eugene IV beatified him in 1435. Five years later, the Florentines ascribed their victory in the Battle of Anghiari on June 29, 1440 against the army of the Duchy of Milan to the miraculous intervention of Blessed Andrea Corsini. In 1652 Pope Clement XII. (Lorenzo Corsini) erecting an altar for his holy ancestor in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. The canonization by Pope Benedict XIII. took place in 1724.

Every year on the day of his death, a solemn relic procession takes place in Florence .

His feast day was initially January 6th, when the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Epiphany . That is why Pope Alexander VII moved his name festival to February 4th . The Polish Church and the Carmelite Monasteries commemorate the saint on January 9th.

literature

• Ludovico Saggi:  Andrea Corsini, santo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3:  Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.
• Luciano Giovannetti u. a .: Sant'Andrea Corsini. Carmelitano, vescovo di Fiesole. VII centenario della nascita, 1301-2001. Becocci, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-8200-082-6 .
• Giovanni Ciappelli: A Trecento bishop as seen by Quattrocento Florentines. Sant 'Andrea Corsini, his "life" and the battle of Anghiari. In: Samuel Kline Cohn, Steven A. Epstein (Eds.): Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living. Essays in Memory of David Herlihy. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1966, ISBN 0-472-10671-6 , pp. 283-298.

Web links

Commons : Andrea_Corsini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in santiebeati.it (Italian)
• Entry on saints.sqpn.com (English)
• Thomas Campbell:  St. Andrew Corsini . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 1, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1907.
• Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
• Entry on heiligenlegende.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giovanni Ciappelli: A fourteenth century bishop as seen by Quattrocento Florentines. Sant 'Andrea Corsini, his "life" and the battle of Anghiari . In: Samuel Kline Cohn, Steven A. Epstein (Eds.): Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living. Ann Arbor 1966, pp. 283-298.
2. ↑ Andrea Corsini - Vescovo ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2015 (Italian).
3. ↑ Otto Bitschnau: The life of God's saints. Benziger, Einsiedeln, 24th edition [after 1881], p. 88.
4. ^ Enrica Crispino: Le chiese di Firenze. Giunti, Florence 1999, ISBN 88-09-01498-7 , p. 49.

predecessor	Office	successor
Fuligno Carboni	Bishop of Fiesole 1349–1374	Jacopo Altovita